Opinion of Mr Advocate General Darmon delivered on 19 April 1988

1 Translated from the French.

2 Commission Decision of 27 November 1985 on the extension of the system of monitoring and production quotas for certain products of undertakings in the steel industry (Official Journal 1985, L 340, p. 5).

3 Case 76/79, judgment of 5 March 1980 [1980] ECR 665.

4 Case 59/84, judgment of 5 March 1986 [1986] ECR 887 (emphasis added).

5 Case 150/86 was initially joined with this case but ordered to be removed from the Register after withdrawal of the application.

6 Case 24/62, judgment of 4 July 1963 [1963] ECR 63.

7 Opinion of 1 December 1987 in Joined Cases 33, 44, 110, 226 and 285/86 Stahlwerke Peine-Salzgiller ana Others [1988] ECR 4309, at p. 4323.

8 Even if we accept the analysis according to which it is the draft decision which must be submitted to the Council (see to that effect, Kovar, Le pouvoir réglementaire dans la CECA, LGDJ, Paris 1964, p. 174), that does not call in question the fact that only general decisions must be the subject of the Council's assent.

9 Commission Decision No 194/88/ECSC of 6 January 1988 (Official Journal L 25, 29.1.1988).

10 Commission Decision of 31 January 1984 (Official Journal L 29, 1.2.1984).

11 Case 14/81, judgment of 3 March 1982 [1982] ECR 749.